| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2016 |
print number 311a |
| Jun 15, 2016 |
amend and recommit to health |
| Jan 06, 2016 |
referred to health |
| Jan 07, 2015 |
referred to health |
Senate Bill S311A
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee
Actions
Bill Amendments
2015-S311 - Details
2015-S311 - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S311
TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the public health law, in relation
to the definition of palliative care
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL : Add a definition for and update
other references to palliative care in the hospice law.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS : The bill adds a new subdivision 6 to
Section 4002 of the Public Health Law to define "palliative care" as
"health care treatment, including interdisciplinary end-of-life care,
and consultation with patients and family members, and psychosocial
and spiritual support to prevent or relieve pain and suffering and to
enhance the patient's quality of life." This definition tracks the
definition used in other relevant provisions of the Public Health Law.
Currently, Section 4002 does not define palliative care for the
article as a whole, but instead references "palliative and supportive
care to meet the special needs arising out of physical, psychological,
spiritual, social and economic stresses which are experienced during
the final stages of illness, and during dying and bereavement."
Section 3 of the bill deletes the definition of palliative care in
Section 4012-b which is selectively applicable to services for
patients with life-limiting as opposed to life-ending illness, and
makes other technical revisions so that the new definition in
2015-S311 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
311
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 7, 2015
___________
Introduced by Sen. ESPAILLAT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the definition of
palliative care
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Legislative intent. The purpose of this act is to conform
the concept of palliative care under article 40 of the public health law
with that in sections 2997-c (palliative care patient information) and
2997-d (hospital, nursing home, home care, special needs assisted living
residences and enhanced assisted living residences palliative care
support) of the public health law.
S 2. Section 4002 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 6 to read as follows:
6. "PALLIATIVE CARE" MEANS HEALTH CARE TREATMENT, INCLUDING INTERDIS-
CIPLINARY END-OF-LIFE CARE, CONSULTATION WITH PATIENTS AND FAMILY
MEMBERS, AND PSYCHOSOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL SUPPORT, TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE
PAIN AND SUFFERING AND TO ENHANCE THE PATIENT'S QUALITY OF LIFE.
S 3. Section 4012-b of the public health law, as added by chapter 195
of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
S 4012-b. Hospice palliative care [program for persons with advanced
and progressive disease]. [1.] Notwithstanding any inconsistent
provision of this article to the contrary, a hospice may also offer a
program of palliative care for patients with advanced [and progressive
disease] LIFE-LIMITING CONDITIONS AND ILLNESSES and their families. Such
a program may be provided by a hospice issued a certificate of approval
pursuant to section [forty hundred] FOUR THOUSAND four of this article,
acting alone or under contract with a certified home health agency, long
term home health care program, licensed home care services agency or
AIDS home care program, as such terms are defined in section thirty-six
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
2015-S311A (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-S311A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S311A
TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the public health law, in relation
to the definition of palliative care
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :
Add a definition for and update other references to palliative care in
the hospice law.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :
The bill adds a new subdivision 6 to Section 4002 of the Public Health
Law to define "palliative care" as "health care treatment, including
interdisciplinary end-of-life care, and consultation with patients and
family members, and psychosocial and spiritual support to prevent or
relieve pain and suffering and to enhance the patient's quality of
life." This definition tracks the definition used in other relevant
provisions of the Public Health Law.
Currently, Section 4002 does not define palliative care for the
article as a whole, but instead references "palliative and supportive
care to meet the special needs arising out of physical, psychological,
spiritual, social and economic stresses which are experienced during
the final stages of illness, and during dying and bereavement."
2015-S311A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
311--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 7, 2015
___________
Introduced by Sen. ESPAILLAT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to
the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the definition of
palliative care
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 4012-b of the public health law, as added by chap-
ter 195 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
S 4012-b. Hospice palliative care [program for persons with advanced
and progressive disease]. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision
of this article to the contrary, a hospice may also offer a program of
palliative care for patients with advanced [and progressive disease]
LIFE-LIMITING CONDITIONS AND ILLNESSES and their families. Such a
program may be provided by a hospice issued a certificate of approval
pursuant to section [forty hundred] FOUR THOUSAND four of this article,
acting alone or under contract with a certified home health agency, long
term home health care program, licensed home care services agency or
AIDS home care program, as such terms are defined in section thirty-six
hundred two of this chapter. Nothing in this section shall preclude the
provision of palliative care by any other health care provider otherwise
authorized to provide such services.
2. For the purposes of this section [the following terms shall mean:
(a) "Advanced and progressive disease" means a medical condition which
is irreversible and which will continue indefinitely, where there is no
reasonable hope of maintaining life.
(b)] "Palliative care" means the active, interdisciplinary care of
patients with advanced, life-limiting illness, focusing on relief of
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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